About Resilient Networks

Richard Spires

Richard specializes in senior-level operations and information technology for large-scale corporations, IT product companies, and US Federal Government entities.

Mr. Spires was appointed and served as the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Chief Information Officer (CIO) from August 2009 till May 2013. In this capacity, Mr. Spires was responsible for the strategy and operations of the department’s annual $5.6 billion investment in Information Technology (IT). Mr. Spires also served as the Vice-Chairman of the Federal Government CIO Council and the Co-Chairman of the Committee for National Security Systems (CNSS), the committee that sets standards for the US Government’s classified systems.

Mr. Spires held a number of positions at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from 2004 through 2008, including serving as the Deputy Commissioner for Operations Support. Prior to becoming Deputy Commissioner, Mr. Spires served as the IRS’ CIO, with overall strategic and operational responsibility for a $2 billion budget and a 7,000-person Modernization and Information Technology Services organization.

From 2000 through 2003, Mr. Spires served as President, Chief Operating Officer, and Director of Mantas, Inc., a software company that provides business intelligence solutions to the financial services industry. In helping to establish Mantas, Mr. Spires successfully led efforts to raise $29 million in venture funding. Prior to Mantas, Mr. Spires spent more than 16 years serving in a number of technical and managerial positions at SRA International.

Mr. Spires received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a B.A. in Mathematical Sciences from the University of Cincinnati, where he was named a Distinguished Alumnus in 2006. He also holds a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the George Washington University.

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Ethan Ayer

Ethan has been an IT, Internet and information security investor since 1998 when he joined his first venture capital firm. He joined Allegra Partners in 2000 and was a Partner at One Equity Partners and Milestone Venture Partners before joining Resilient first as an investor and later as CFO. He has served on the Boards of CyberTrust (sold to Verizon), Telwares, Worktopia.com and now Resilient. Ethan started his career at Merrill Lynch & Co. in Structured Finance. Ethan received a Masters Degree from Cambridge University, and an A.B. from Harvard College.

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Mark Hapner

Mark is responsible for design and implementation of Resilient’s trust protocols and distributed policy infrastructure. He has a broad background in the design and implementation of distributed systems and is listed as an inventor on 13 distributed systems software patents.

As a Sun Distinguished Engineer, Mark was Lead Architect of J2EE. He designed the initial version of the Java Message Service; co-designed of the EJB Component Model; and lead the design of the overall platform.

Prior to his work on J2EE, Mark has been involved in a wide variety of software design projects in the area of distributed systems and middleware including authoring several of Sun’s submissions to the OMG; design of transactional application platforms; design of CAD/CAM data integration platforms; and design of frameworks for processing event and message streams.

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Rochelle Gunn

Rochelle Gunn is the chief investment officer of HRK Group, Inc. (HRK), a single-family office in Saint Paul, Minnesota. HRK provides integrated financial services to 20 fourth through sixth generation family members. Rochelle is responsible for setting the strategic asset allocation for two global investment portfolios and execution of all investment activities to meet the long term goals for the current and future beneficiaries of the family’s wealth. Prior to joining HRK in 2008 Rochelle served as portfolio manager at Waycrosse, Inc. a single-family office in Wayzata, Minnesota. At Waycrosse she was responsible for managing the global fixed income and global active equities portfolios. Rochelle is a Chartered Financial Analyst and has a bachelor’s degree in finance and economics.

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Jack Lewis, MD

Jack Lewis, MD was appointed in 2013 as President and CEO of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF), a very highly respected global enterprise in the interventional cardiology (IC) space. From 2012-2013 he was Principal and Founder of Lewin and Associates LLC, a Washington DC health consulting firm focused on both the clinical and business aspects of health policy, including data-driven quality improvement, and delivery and payment system innovation. Lewin has also served, and continues serving, on the boards of organizations including the eHealth Initiative, RHDI, and the National Coalition on Health Care. Lewin previously served as CEO of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) from 2006-2012, based in Washington DC. Prior to coming to ACC, Lewin was CEO of the 35,000-member California Medical Association for eight years. Prior to that, he was Hawaii’s Director of Health from 1986-1994, and he was also CEO of Hawaii’s 12-facility, statewide public hospital system. Before that, as a Commissioned Officer in the USPHS, Lewin was the founder and first Director of the Navajo Nation Department of Health.

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W.J. “Billy” Tauzin

Congressman Tauzin is the former president and CEO of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the pharmaceutical industry’s top lobbying group. Tauzin is the first and only U.S. Congressman to hold leadership positions in both major political parties, serving fifteen years as a Conservative Democrat and then ten years as a Republican. From 2001 to 2004, Congressman Tauzin served as chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. He also served as a senior member of the House Resources Committee

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Louis R. Woodhill

Louis was the co-founder and first CEO of Mission Critical Software (IPO: 1999), and was a founder and Chairman of Configuresoft (acquired by EMC: 2009). He is also Chairman of Digabit, Inc., and serves on the board of directors for Authentify, Inc. Louis has a degree in Mechanical Engineering and has written extensively on economics topics.

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Jonathan Hare

Jonathan is a serial entrepreneur and technology executive, and has held a variety of executive roles spanning strategy, product management, software development, strategic alliances, and marketing over a twenty year career. He was founder and CEO of Consilient, Inc. an internet software firm which pioneered XML-based collaborative application technology. Earlier, he was founding CEO of Evolve Software, an enterprise software vendor which pioneered a new application market, and went public in 2000. Jonathan has held executive, management and technical positions at Teseract, Microsoft, Cornerstone Research, Strategic Planning Associates, and Impell Corporation.

Jonathan has broad expertise in Internet and enterprise software, security and privacy technology, electronic health records, healthcare policy, etc. He is a member of the Health IT Standards Panel’s Security and Privacy Technical Committee, the Identity Credential Management Working Group, and the Markle Foundation Consumer Authentication Working Group. He is also a member of the Markle Foundation Personal Health Technology Council.

Jonathan is a noted expert in the application of Complex Adaptive Systems Theory to enterprise software and business processes, and a regular participant in cross-disciplinary symposia at the Santa Fe Institute and the Aspen Institute. He is the Chairman of the E.O Wilson Foundation technical advisory board.

Jonathan received his MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. He was a Regents and Chancellors Scholar at UC Berkeley, where he majored in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research.

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Bill Coleman

In addition to his role at Resilient, Bill maintains an active role with Alsop Louie Partners, an early stage venture capital company, where he was a Partner before joining Resilient full-time. Prior to Alsop Louie Partners, he was the founder, Chairman of the board and CEO of Cassatt Corporation, an enterprise software and services company acquired by CA in 2009. Bill founded and was the first Chairman and CEO of BEA Systems. Under his leadership, BEA became the fastest software firm ever to exceed $1 billion in annual revenue. As vice president of system software at Sun Microsystems, Coleman’s team transformed SunOS into the commercially successful Solaris operating system. While at Sun he also founded Sun’s Professional Services Division and co-founded Sun’s Federal Division. He began his career in the U.S. Air Force where he served as chief of satellite operations in the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force. He is a member of the board of directors of Resilient Network Systems Inc., iControl Networks Inc., Framehawk Inc. and Business Executives for National Security.

Bill holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the U.S. Air Force Academy and master’s degrees in computer science and computer engineering from Stanford University. He also has an honorary doctorate from the University of Colorado.

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Dr. David Hartzband

Dr. Hartzband brings more than two decades of diverse experience in the private and public sectors as a consultant, executive and technology industry leader. He has developed advanced database and metadata technologies, including knowledge base, similarity-based reasoning systems and model and ontology-based systems. He has also developed products in the distributed middleware, content management and collaboration areas, as well as architectures for large-scale data and information management systems.

His previous work experience includes external technology consultant for Santa Barbara (SBCCDE) and many other RHIOs and healthcare organizations, architect of several HIT products, CTO or Technology VP at Upstream Consulting, Agile Software, eRoom Technology, Documentum, EMC, Architect of Digital Equipment’s relational database (rdb) and CORBA products (ObjectBroker), Chief Scientist for Artificial Intelligence, Lecturer in Engineering Systems, MIT; research in technology adoption by healthcare organizations and course development in large-scale software systems.

Dr. Hartzband is the author of numerous technical reports and journal articles in mathematics, artificial intelligence, concurrent engineering and cultural anthropology. He holds a doctoral degree in mathematics and has served as an adjunct faculty member at both Stanford University (Computer Science Department & Knowledge Systems Laboratory) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Leaders for Manufacturing Program).

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Daemon Price

Daemon Price is a passionate, entrepreneurial-minded business development professional with experience in sales and marketing, a TS gov’t clearance and over 25 years demonstrated success increasing market share and revenues. Having cut his teeth in the early dot.com days at several startups, Daemon went on to have a distinguished career utilizing his broad international, commercial and government knowledge to win prime, subcontractor and task order contracts at companies such as 3M, CSC and SAIC. With a talent for analyzing competitive landscape and conducting research to align current product offerings with customer requirements, Daemon has built technologies and programs earning in excess of several billion dollars across the IT, C4ISR, Security, Intel, Mission Support, Education, Health and Banking industries. A graduate from Virginia Tech, where he participated in the Corps of Cadets while earning several degrees and certificates, today Daemon lives in the Frederick, MD area northwest of Washington DC with his wife and two children.

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Sandip Ghosh

Sandip is responsible for managing the team that designs and implements the Resilient Adaptive Access Management product. As an early member of the Resilient engineering team he has developed several components of the Resilient product including the distributed policy evaluation infrastructure, the policy and authority stores and the administrative console.

Prior to joining Resilient, Sandip was at Salesforce and developed several features for the Object Relationship Mapping (ORM) layer, including the addition of HTML data types to the Salesforce object model. He is listed as an inventor on a software patent for an innovative way of storing and accessing images in a multi-tenant database that are referenced in HTML fields.

Earlier in his career, Sandip was at BEA Systems (acquired by Oracle in 2008), where he was an important member of the Web Logic Integration team and built large portions of the Data Transformation and Business Process Management (BPM) software.

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Peter Curley

Peter has led the marketing and product marketing functions for a number of successful tech startups. Prior to Resilient, he built the product marketing team for Mashery, a successful API Management startup, that was acquired by Intel. Peter began his career as a team lead for Charles Schwab’s groundbreaking e.Schwab online offering. Peter has a B.A. in economics from University College Dublin, an M.A. in economics from the University of Exeter, and an MBA from Columbia University.

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Jason Skinner

Jason has been leading customers through technology transformation journeys since 1996 as a trusted advisor and technology consulting leader. As Vice President of Cloud Solutions at WorldLink US, a Texas-based cloud content management firm, Mr Skinner received numerous awards including Box National Innovation Partner of the Year in 2016. Prior to WorldLink, he was COO or CEO of several fast-growing technology consulting companies and a senior consultant for Deloitte Consulting. Mr. Skinner graduated from Stephen F. Austin State University with majors in both Management and Speech Communication. When he is not helping customers build a better tomorrow, Jason enjoys time with his wife and three kids on the beach or in the mountains.